Sole for boots or shoes



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G. W', ELLIS.

SOLE FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

No. 377,244. Patented Ja.n31, 1888.

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GEORGE VHITEEIELD ELLIS, OE LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO PEELEY GREEN, OF STONEI-IAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOLE FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming pari; of Letters Patent No. 377,244, dated January 31, 1888.

Application tiled Oetober, 18M. Serial No. 253,4C0. (No model.)

To @ZZ 107mm it may concern: In securing the sections A A together the Be it known that I, GEORGE XVIHTEFIELD inner adjoining` edges are first supplied with ELUS, a citizen of the United States, residing glue, cement, or other securing substance, and at Lynn, in the county ot' Essex and State ot' are then secured by means of staples a, which 55 Massachusetts, haveinvented certa-in new and hold the sections while the glue is setting. useful Improvements in Soles for Boots or The sole thus formed is then glued or secured Shoes, ofwhich the following is aspeciiication. in any suitable manner to the outer sole.

This invention relates to boot or shoe soles In the modification shown in Fig. 5 four of that class in which small pieces or scraps of sections are used. the front sections, A A, 6o r3 leather are utilized; and its object is to probeing similar to the front portion of the secvide acomposite sole possessing advantagesin tions A Ain the hereinbet'ore-described conpoint of inexpensiveness in manufacture, dnstruction. These sections A A are cut away rability, and neatness, and one which will be at their rear edges, forming, when said sections equally as serviceable as those made of a solid are in position, a cone-shaped recess, occupied piece of leather. by the forward portions of two similarly-shaped In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of trapezit'orin sections, C C'. All of the seca sole embodying my invention. Eig. 2 is a tions are then secured together, as before dctransverse section thereof. Fig. 3 is a iongiscribed. In this construction smaller pieces tudinal section. Fig. a isadetail section illusof leather can be utilized. 7o zo trating one of the staples. Eig. 5 is a detail It will be noted that by my invention a cenperspective view ofthe pieces separated. Fig. ter piece or filling is entirely dispensed with,

Gis a plan view of a modification. and that all the pieces forming the composito Corresponding parts in the figures are detop sole will be securely retained in position noted by the saine letters of reference. in the construction of the shoe by sewing or Heretofore in the manufacture of soles of nailing. Thus, when the bottom sole, B, is rethis class two marginal pieces of leather have moved in repairing theshoe,the parts or pieces been employed, having beveled overlapping of the top sole will remain in position and not front ends, and forming a central space defall out or become displaced, as is the case signed to be filled in with one or more scraps with the center piecein previous constructions 83 30 of leather, all the sections being then secured or forms of composite soles.

together by cementing or gluing binding The advantages ot' my invent-ion will be sheets upon one or both sides ofthe sole. To readily understood from the foregoing descripmanufacture this form of sole,it is necessary to tion, taken in connection with the annexed employ workmen to scarf or bevel the ends, as drawings. It is obvious that by providing the 85 described, as also for the purpose of cutting angle at the toe the necessity ofsecuring bindout and pasting the bindingsheets upon them, ing-sheets on either or both sides, as also the thnsinvolving considerable expense and labor. practice of scarfmg or beveling and overlap- My invention is designed to obviate these ping the inner front ends,is entirely obviated, disadvantages; and to this end I employ two and, furthermore, amuch neater finished sole 9o 40 sections of leather, A A', which, when their is thereby secured.

inner edges are placed together, correspond in W'hile I prefer to employ staples to secure horizontal plan or section to the shape of the the sections together while the glue is setting,

outer sole, B. The section A has a portion of it will be manifest that they may be dispensed its inner front end cut away, as shown at a, with and the glue alone employed to retain the 45 and aprojecting piece, a, is provided upon the sections together.

inner front edge of the section A', correspond- I claim as my inventioning in shape to and designed to occupy the re- 1. As an improved article of manufacture,

cess co in the section A when the sections are a sectional sole for boots or shoes, comprising secured together. Ey thus forming an angle two sections, one of which has a recess nearits 10o 5o in the line of the joint at the front edge a neat front inner end, the other section being formed finish is secured. with a projecting portion near its end corresponding in shape to and adapted to ll said recess, and staples for securing the sections together, substantially as set forth.

2. A compositesole composed of two or more 5 pieces secured together at their adjoining edges and having all the pieces extending to the outer edge of the sole, whereby a central lling is obviated and all the pieces will be retained in position by sewing or nailing in the construe V tion of theshoe, said" pieces forming two united sections, one of which has a recess near its front inner end, while the other section is formed with a projecting portion near its end correspending in shape to and adapted to fill said v [5 recess7 substantially as set forth. l f

3. The herein-deseribed sectional sole for boots or shoe, comprising two sections, one of which has a recess near its front inner end, the

other section being formed with a projecting portion near its end corresponding in shape to 2o and adapted to fill said recess, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof` I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

MELVILLE P. N IoKERsoN, LAURA K. KENDRICK. 

